The New Life

Jesus the Keeper.
" The Lord is thy keeper.'' For every weakness,
every temptation, learn to deposit your soul with
Him as a pledge. You can reckon upon it, you can
shout joyfully over it: "The Lord shall keep you
from all evil." ^
Holy Jesus, I take Thee as my keeper. Let Thy
name, " The Lord thy keeper," sound as a song in
my heart the whole day. Teach me in every need to
deposit my case as a pledge with Thee, and to be
assured that Thou art able to keep it. Amen.
1. There was once a woman who for years long, and with
much prayer, had striven against her temper, but could not
obtain the victory. On a certain day she resolved not to come
out of her room until by earnest prayer she had the power to
overcome. She went out in the opinion that she should succeed.
Scarcely had she been in the household, when something gave
her offence and caused her to be angry. She was deeply
ashamed, burst into tears, and hastened back to her room. A
daughter, who understood the way of faith better than she,
went to her and said, "Mother, I have observed your conflict:
may I tell you what I think the hindrance is?" "Yes, my
child." " Mother, you struggle against temper, and pray that
the I,ord may help you to overcome. This is wrong. The Lord
must do it alone. You must give temper wholly iuto His hands :
then He takes it wholly, and He keeps you." The mother
could not at first understand this, but later it was made plain
to her. And she enjoyed the blessedness of the life in which
Jesus keeps us, and we by faith have the victory. Do you understand
this?
2. " The Lord must help me to overcome sin :
" the expression
is altogether outside of the New Testament. The grace of God
1 Josh. i.
9 ; Ps. xxiii. 4 ; Rom. viii. 3s, 39.
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